On 14th May 2023 an all-too-easy 4-2 win at city rivals Espanyol meant that Barcelona secured yet another La Liga title. It had long looked as though Barca would claim the 2022/23 crown but a brace from Robert Lewandowski set them on the way to a 4-0 lead after 53 minutes and although they were…
On a weekly basis, the football Gods write scripts that Hollywood would discard as too implausible. Title races that come down to the last kick of the last game, teams coming from two and three goals down with 10 men, players that haven’t scored for months bagging last-gasp winners against their former club, the list…
We are very much approaching squeaky-bum time in terms of the 2022/23 Premier League season. With four games to go (for most teams) Manchester City are big favourites for the title, Newcastle United and Manchester United should secure top-four finishes, and Southampton are in serious trouble at the bottom. The other two relegation places are…
Part of what makes football such an accessible sport, at least at a very casual level, is the ability to play it almost anywhere. Whether it be a concrete playground, a patch of sand on the beach or in the back garden, all you really need is a makeshift goal (we hear jumpers work quite…
According to some, the fastest goal ever scored in an official, organised game, came just 2.1 seconds after kick-off. However, that came in a Scottish non-league match, on a relatively short pitch (when we are talking about goals this quick, the size of the pitch is important). Nonetheless, Gavin Stokes’ incredible strike in 2017 is,…
Above Image: rarrarorro, Bigstock Photo At the time of writing, as we approach the run-in of the Premier League season, Aston Villa are playing brilliantly and are pushing for European qualification. Despite being more likely to be fighting against relegation in recent years (or indeed playing the in Championship as they did from 2016/17 to…
As the 2022/23 season draws to a close we have eight fantastic teams left in the UEFA Champions League. Whilst much of the focus is on whether Man City can finally land the biggest prize in domestic football, or whether one of the three Italian teams in the quarters can go all the way, it…
Club football will dominate the thoughts of most fans over the next couple of months as the 2022/23 season comes to a conclusion. England next play after all the Premier League excitement has ended and the dust has settled, facing Malta in their next Euro 2024 qualifier, on the 16th June. However, during the recent…
During a football season, many football fans will end up only visiting one ground, the home stadium of their favourite team. There will also be, of course, a contingent of fans willing to travel to away matches too, with some of them very rarely missing a single fixture, no matter how long the journey. These…
Since the Premier League’s inaugural season in 1992/93, fans have enjoyed tens of thousands of goals. But in this article, we’re focusing on the men whose job it has been to stop the ball from hitting the back of the net: the goalkeepers. We’ll run through some of the key goalkeeping stats and take a…
